Dan Whitacre, Senior Director Kroger Labs and Transformation, Kroger

Dan Whitacre’s path to power

Whitacre currently serves as the senior director of R&D and technology transformation where he leads the internal lab ecosystem. He focuses on innovation and transforming Kroger’s enterprise approaches to data and analytics architecture, technology strategies and practices. 

He served as the chief technology officer and vice president of business development for a technology services organization and spent six years consulting at IBM on information and analytics strategy and architecture.